ANGLES THEATRE

ANGLES THEATRE, ALEXANDRA ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125904
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: ANGLES THEATRE
Statutory Address:: ANGLES THEATRE, ALEXANDRA ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125904
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: ANGLES THEATRE
Statutory Address 1:: ANGLES THEATRE, ALEXANDRA ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ANGLES THEATRE, ALEXANDRA ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Fenland (District Authority)
Parish:: Wisbech
National Grid Reference:: TF 46102 09542

Details

WISBECH ALEXANDRA ROAD TF 4609 6/2 Angles Theatre GV II

Built as a theatre in 1793. Local brown brick; hipped slate roof. Modern C20 lean-to linking theatre building to north- east boundary wall. Two storeys with basement. Gable facing south-east has one large eight-paned window and stage door entrance with boarded door approached by steps. Basement door boarded, in segmental brick arch. Metal plates survive indicating positions of scenery. C18 boundary wall has a stone plaque facing passageway saying it replaces an earlier wall to the Castle. Wisbech Society Annual Report, 1950. Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.285, 1898. Watson, History of Wisbech, p.350, 1827. Craddock & Walker, History of Wisbech, p.429, 1849.

Listing NGR: TF4611209550

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 48198
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898), 285
Walker, N, Craddock, T , The History of Wisbech and the Fens, (1849), 429
Watson, W, An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, (1827), 350
'Wisbech Society Annual Report' in Wisbech Society Annual Report, (1950)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.